Downtime Patch Notes

[Macroscian]

Items sheathed on characters backs should no longer defy the law of gravity.

Yee-haw! Perhaps a month or two late but: wheeeeee! Whopee!

What happened to the forum mini-game The Hunting of the Snark?

[melyjely]

Did they say anything about what happens if you don't have a barter wallet?

Doesn't everyone have a basic barter wallet?

[Bicyclerepairman]

Doesn't everyone have a basic barter wallet?

Yes but thats the Basic one. Most things doesnt go into that one.

[Laerien]

We probably wont be able to split a stack in the shared storage either. IIRC to do that the entire stack go stealthy to the char inventory and it's splitted there (not in the shared storage).

[Rrys]

So, if I give you these now... does that make it 9:30? *bats her eyelashes*



AzurStorm, the patch notes are in a wiki and placed into their own category. Should you ever want to know about any of the patch notes we have ever release (and see the spot where all future patch notes will go) just look here: http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Category:LOTRO_Releases. No social network required.

Now, if the Release/Latest link http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Release/Latest actually worked!

[Kaynith]

So, I have confirmed that the Festival Tickets are not BoA in the Barter Wallet. If you guys wish to leave your feedback on that, we can create a new thread, but please keep it respectful and constructive.

Certainly looks like Bind on Acquire to me. One of us needs more coffee. Maybe me. Though it's primarily tea. Time for a cup.

[Crell_1]

So, I have confirmed that the Festival Tickets are not BoA in the Barter Wallet. If you guys wish to leave your feedback on that, we can create a new thread, but please keep it respectful and constructive.

Celestrata- I can confirm that they are Bind on Acquire in the barter wallet. Perhaps you meant to say they are not 'Bind to account'. They at the very least need to be bind to account. Plenty of us do all of our festivaling on one character. If they're meant to short-cut the luck requirement, they at the very least let us need to decide where we want the effort directed, or which character needs the directed aid.


Additionally, Keg race deeds seem to have had that portion of the reward removed instead of replaced with Festival tickets ^_^

[Kaynith]

Celestrata- I can confirm that they are Bind on Acquire in the barter wallet. Perhaps you meant to say they are not 'Bind to account'. They at the very least need to be bind to account. Plenty of us do all of our festivaling on one character. If they're meant to short-cut the luck requirement, they at the very least let us need to decide where we want the effort directed, or which character needs the directed aid.


Additionally, Keg race deeds seem to have had that portion of the reward removed instead of replaced with Festival tickets ^_^

It's so that folks like you and I who do all of their 'festivalling' on one character cannot amass something like this by sending all of our unused tokens to one character:



They would much rather we use this:



Nothing to get upset about. It is what it is. It IS a business after all. We can expect it to behave as such. The problems and misconceptions arise when we get too attached to it and look at it as something else OTHER than a business. So, in essence, it's done nothing wrong. The problem lies with our pre-perceptions. That's just my 2 cents. Do I like it? No. But I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. (Besides, I'd anticipated this nonsense ahead of time and already sent my festival toon all the tokens I'll need. Ounce of planning vs a pound of cure and all that. After a while, you start to anticipate things like this, and do your best to hedge against them.

[Celestrata]

Celestrata- I can confirm that they are Bind on Acquire in the barter wallet. Perhaps you meant to say they are not 'Bind to account'. They at the very least need to be bind to account. Plenty of us do all of our festivaling on one character. If they're meant to short-cut the luck requirement, they at the very least let us need to decide where we want the effort directed, or which character needs the directed aid.


Additionally, Keg race deeds seem to have had that portion of the reward removed instead of replaced with Festival tickets ^_^

Indeed, I meant Bind on Account not Bind on Acquire. That's where my head was at. My Apologies for the confusion with that. This is why I later said they are white, not green in the barter. Tried to be as clear as possible.

[Nodwick]

Plenty of us do all of our festivaling on one character. If they're meant to short-cut the luck requirement, they at the very least let us need to decide where we want the effort directed, or which character needs the directed aid.

I can only agree with this statement, they needs to be bound to account at least.

[Crell_1]

Indeed, I meant Bind on Account not Bind on Acquire. That's where my head was at. My Apologies for the confusion with that. This is why I later said they are white, not green in the barter. Tried to be as clear as possible.

Can you tell me if Festival Tickets Purchased from the store remained bind-to-account? Or If they they had their bind status downgraded as well?
(For both Pre U7.3 and Post 7.3 purchases of Festival Tickets if there's a difference.)

[Hathgor]

the faire is still broken. now i have a slightly better chance of accusing a drunkard rather than a sober hobbit than before, but i still inevitably fail because there are more sobers than drunks, and they all behave exactly the same, so there is no way to properly complete the quest.
Further, the mayor asks for "something" to relieve him, but I have to guess, and of course, i fail because his appetite changes from moment to moment

EDIT: Finally figured it out. still, i think the instructions can be a bit cleaer

[Bicyclerepairman]

the faire is still broken. now i have a slightly better chance of accusing a drunkard rather than a sober hobbit than before, but i still inevitably fail because there are more sobers than drunks, and they all behave exactly the same, so there is no way to properly complete the quest.
Further, the mayor asks for "something" to relieve him, but I have to guess, and of course, i fail because his appetite changes from moment to moment

http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Farmers_Faire

Mayor works every time for me at least.

[forum_elf]

Race tokens from Summer 2011 did not convert to tickets for me.
Can anyone confirm the problem?
I do not have premium barter wallet (might be relevant?)

[Hurin]

Someone woke up ragey today.

[Kolde]

This makes me sad. Festivals are supposed to be about playing and having fun. There is no player advantage to getting more eggs or getting a decorated pony faster because you have more alts than some other people. There is no PvE or PvMP advantage tied to anything in a festival, it is all just fun and playing. What's the point? Why even bother attending the festivals anymore if all the fun is being sucked out of it for profits? Bleh.

[Celebria]

Honestly, I have no idea why I'd ever want my summer festival tokens to be changed to festival tickets. This is lame. The whole reason I stored them is to use them to buy stuff I didn't get last year. Festival tickets are worthless.

[Eartholloth]

Honestly, I have no idea why I'd ever want my summer festival tokens to be changed to festival tickets. This is lame. The whole reason I stored them is to use them to buy stuff I didn't get last year. Festival tickets are worthless.

It's the race tokens, not festival ones.

[Celebria]

I still don't get it. Why would they take away peoples' stored race tokens?

[Slevin76]

I'm more confused why these terrible annoying soundeffects were applied. I mean some of the sounds were just reactivated but THAT is a bit too much.

[FieldMedic]

Turbine, change these Festival Tickets to Bound to Account.

You're at fault for not warning us that you were going to make this change and not giving us time to make this right. We can only assume that these were not meant to be Bind on Acquire and so this sudden change is unfair. Please make this right.

[swattz101]

ooh, thanks.
damn, i dont have time to grind for this!

The festival horse can be "ground" in one day by doing most of the festival quests. You don't even need to do all of them.

[Hathgor]

The festival horse can be "ground" in one day by doing most of the festival quests. You don't even need to do all of them.

i have to go to work ya know and theres plenty of other cool loot to go 'round. But this toon nailed 70 tokens in one day .

[swattz101]

i have to go to work ya know and there's plenty of other cool loot to go 'round. But this toon nailed 70 tokens in one day .

You are right, many of us have to work. To clarify, I get home from work about 7pm. My "Game Day" is from around 8pm to midnight. Running both race tracks and all the working faire quests, and I was able to get the Farmer's Faire horse on the first day playing on a 3 year old mid-level laptop. I'm sitting with around 200 tokens on my festival alt. The amount of tokens for the festival horse seems like a lot, but you get 3-4 tokens per quest. More for the fish quests because you can trade in the fish. And quest where you work for the vendor, if you can run all the vendor stall quests, they are worth 3-4 tokens each also. Once you get in the hang of it, you can do all of them in about half the time they quest gives you. Also, the eggs are each worth tokens.

tl;dr - spend 1-2 hours a day for a couple of days, and you should have everything you need.

[Nodwick]

The festival horse can be "ground" in one day by doing most of the festival quests. You don't even need to do all of them.

I must admit I usually go exchange some Inn league or AA tokens to get the horse right off the bat when the festival starts ( if I can get the festival tokens with them ) and then I relax with the quests afterwards just for fun